Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Are you reading your very first blog post here on Toronto Realty Blog? Those who know me – at least, through TRB, are fully aware of my thoughts on pre-construction condos, the pre-construction condo industry, and the way that pre-construction condos are sold and eventually built.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I have been perhaps the harshest critic of the pre-construction condominium industry in Ontario over the past two decades. Some of you, reading this, have made money in pre-construction. I think I grew so disenfranchised with writing about the perils of pre-con that I finally stopped. I have no doubt about that.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What is a “double whammy?” For example, if you have pain caused by both physical and emotional trauma, it’s two pains, but combined they are far worse. I re-read them quarterly because they help me keep the pre-con temptations in check…you must understand, these temptations are…overwhelming at times.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

I read the comments on the blog most of the time, just so you know. I often sought out topics that would cause debate and disagreement, whereas today, I think that’s just the natural result of anything we discuss. What’s happening in the market? What are people saying? What’s interesting?

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s just really, really hard to describe an entire year’s blog posts or an entire year’s real estate stories in a standard blog-post length. This is likely more subjective than the top five blog posts , but then again, we run into many of the same themes over and over. Pre-Construction.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Thanks to the readers for suggesting blog topics before the long weekend! As you saw in Tuesday’s blog post, I took one such suggestion to heart. Thank you for taking us back to that place that we all thought we had left for good: pre-construction. I started blogging (ranting?)

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Sometimes, a delay is just a delay. And other times, a delay is just the first step along the road to a cancelation. These are in no particular order, other than what I think of when I really question why a condominium project might be canceled in Toronto… – 1) Zoning and approval.

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